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Ghana’s Electoral Commission( EC) has filed a motion appealing to the Accra High Court to extend the deadline that the court gave it to operationalise the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA), 2006 (Act 699), which gives Ghanaians in the Diaspora<\/a> the right to vote from abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 18, 2017, the Human Rights Division of the Accra High \nCourt ordered the EC to operationalise ROPAA within 12 months by laying \nbefore Parliament a Constitutional Instrument (CI) that will set out the\n modalities for the implementation of ROPAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in its motion filed on January 30, the EC is praying the court to\n extend the 12 month deadline, which ended in December 2018, to January,\n 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An affidavit in support of the motion which was deposed to by the EC \nChairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, cites leadership challenges at the EC as \nthe reason for the appeal for extension of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI say that after the judgment of the honourable court, the 1st \nrespondent (EC) experienced serious leadership challenges eventually \nleading to the removal from office of my predecessor and the Deputy \nCommissioners who were then in the Commission.\u201d<\/ins>
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The court presided over by Mr Justice Anthony Yeboah, had held that \nits order was to ensure that Ghanaians outside the country registered \nand voted in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order was directed at the seven commissioners of the EC and the EC as a body and was to take effect from January 1, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the court, the EC was to \u201cuphold and ensure the full \ncompliance of the operationalisation of Act 699\u2019\u2019 within the 12-month \nperiod by laying before Parliament a Constitutional Instrument (CI) that\n would set out the modalities for the implementation of Act 699, and \nthat in the event that the EC had any justifiable reason and was \u201cunable\n to comply with the order\u201d, the commission was to publish the \njustifiable reason(s) 30 days before the expiration of the deadline and \nalso appear before the court to explain the reason(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failure by the EC to implement ROPAA, the court held, was a violation of the fundamental human rights of Ghanaians in the Diaspora, whose right to vote had been guaranteed by the 1992 Constitution, which was made effective by ROPAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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